Specializations
PhD in Analytics
This specialization offers a wide variety of courses in Analytics, Operations Research and Operations Management to expose students to the latest methods, recent modeling approaches and current issues in the general areas of operations and decision making.
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Program Structure and Content
Each student is required to complete the following courses as well as a research project of publishable quality, present at our annual Smith Grad Student Consortium, comprehensive exams, and present at a research seminar in year 3.
Course offerings change from year to year. This sample stream is not reflective of a guaranteed curriculum but is instead an example of what a curriculum could look like in a given year. Please note the minimum requirement to complete a degree is 27 credits. Many of our area groups will exceed the minimum courses to satisfy job market needs in academia.
With supervisor approval, students can select MGMT specialization courses from other area groups. Electives can be any other MGMT course or a course from another department at the supervisor’s discretion.
Course descriptions are available on the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs website. Any non-MGMT courses are linked below.
Sample Analytics PhD Curriculum
| Course | Credits |
|---|---|
| Core | |
| MGMT 901 Research Foundations | Pass/Fail |
| MGMT 993 Teaching and Learning in Management and Business | Pass/Fail |
| MGMT 989 Major Research Project | Pass/Fail |
| MGMT 994 Upper Year Research Presentation | Pass/Fail |
| MGMT 999 PhD Thesis | Pass/Fail |
| Specialization – MGMT | |
| MGMT 960 Deterministic Operations Research Models | 3 |
| MGMT 961 Probabilistic Operations Research Models | 3 |
| MGMT 964 Advanced Topics in Analytics | 3 |
| MGMT 965 Analysis of Supply Chains | 3 |
| Electives – Supervisor Approved MGMT or Other Department | |
| MGMT 962 Big Data Analytics (or other elective) | 3 |
| MGMT 963 Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (or other elective) | 3 |
| Methods/Related Field | |
| MGMT XXX / CISC XXX | 3 |
| MGMT 988 Applied Statistics and Econometrics | 3 |
| MGMT 990 Econometrics Methods | 3 |
| Total Credits | 27 |
Examples of possible electives from other departments for the Analytics specialization include: